Hey VI: exercise definatly helps! Keeps things mobile. If I sit in one place to long, I stiffen up all over and its hard to get going again.

6 July 2007 - FridayWent bouldering out at Pena Blanca, from 6 p.m. until just before midnight. Night climbing is fun . Here is a video (before it got dark out) of me climbing a problem called "The Shield". V0, the crux is at the top and I have yet to top this one out:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n4ZOA7JggYwYes, feel free to laugh at my friend who tilted the camera on its side towards the end .

And then of course there was a rattle snake in the path on the way back to our cars:

Crystal wrote: Here is a video (before it got dark out) of me climbing a problem called "The Shield". V0, the crux is at the top and I have yet to top this one out:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n4ZOA7JggYw.

Crystal wrote:6 July 2007 - FridayWent bouldering out at Pena Blanca, from 6 p.m. until just before midnight. Night climbing is fun . Here is a video (before it got dark out) of me climbing a problem called "The Shield". V0, the crux is at the top and I have yet to top this one out:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n4ZOA7JggYw

Darn, couldn't quite finish out the last 2 reps on squat, it dropped to the pins on my 9th rep like there was a magnet pulling it down or something! Oh well, its about time I started dropping reps and upping weight a little anyway .

13 July 2007 - FridayWee bit of climbing today. Really just exploring a new route that recently re-opened in the mountains in town. It was a hot day so didn't get very far

14 July 2007 - Saturday

DL:
10 x 135 lbs
10 x 165 lbs
10 x 185 lbs
3 x 8 x 205 lbs

BB Bent Rows:
10 x bar
10 x 65 lbs
8 x 85 lbs

DB Shrugs:
20 x 35s
20 x 40s
20 x 40s

*stretching

Was going to get out early this Sunday morning for a bit of hiking, but didn't sleep to great Saturday night (must be the heat), so ended up sleeping in until it was too hot to go out . Oh well, this is El Paso's off season for that sort of stuff anyway.

Wow! You are an amazing athlete!
I was looking at your training journal - you do a three day split working full body each day?? Or am I remembering it wrong?
You are so lean - I have to ask . . . are you like this naturally? What is your diet like and do you do cardio?
Your arms are simply gorgeous - good work!

I basically do a 3-day split based around the three powerlifting lifts: squat, bench, and deadlift. The only one I'd really call "full body" is the deadlift day, works a bunch of muscles that one does. I do fairly high volume for now, but will cut that down with the passing weeks to increasingly high weight and low reps until I peak and will test my 1 rep maxes for those three lifts. Hope that makes sense

I am lean naturally, when I was competing in powerlifting I tried desperatly to put on some muscle (or any) mass to help add weight to my lifts, but was never able to! D'oh.

My diet is okay, could be better. At best I generally eat cold cereal for breakfast, sandwiches or leftovers for lunch, and something with rice/noodles and beans for dinner. Other than that I have a sweet tooth from hell and can't get enough chocolate Silk

Don't really do much cardio, but I have been hiking some lately which is kicking my ass, my cardio SUCKS. My rock climbing doesn't really count as cardio, I do bouldering and I'm enough of a novice that I don't climb long before falling and having to rest before trying again.

Thanks for the compliments and comments, sorry about the longwinded reply Honestly, you seem like a much better athlete than myself.

Bench:
10 x bar
10 x 75 lbs
3 x 6 x 95 lbs - missed my benching this last week (laziness is my only excuse), so threw it in today. Happy to get 6 reps at that weight, was a struggle.

Oh, kind late for posting this workout . I hate rows, they've never been a strong point for me, but I'd like to build up my back more to help climbing. Oh, as for climbing, been WAY to hot to climb lately, but I'm hoping to hit it again next week as its supposed to be cooler.

Wowsers sister! Thanks for all the info! I have always been intrigued by this type of workout - I've never had any instruction in power lifting - and don't have a partner - which I think would be necessary . . .

You are more than welcome for the compliments ... they are well deserved - just good to see someone (especially a woman) so lean and well muscled representin' the vegan front!

Cursed benching , I can get 10 reps at 85 lbs just fine, but add any weight to that and I can barely do a couple! Last week I was scraping for 6 reps at just 95 lbs, and this week I couldn't do crap with any more weight. Oh well, just need to use those little 2.5 lbs plates or something next time. The rest of the workout was great, finally getting up there with dips again